DIMIA lies already, before Whitewash Rau Inquiry

"Refugee advocacy group Project SafeCom
claims that there is no doubt that the planned Cornelia Rau
inquiry will be a whitewash, and that even before this
Inquiry is due to start, a spokesman for the Department of
Immigration is already on the record of lying to reporters
of The Australian this week."

"Only a judicial inquiry
that can safeguard both freedom from reprisals for
witnesses, and has legal powers, will bring out what has
gone on inside the Baxter detention centre."

"A report by
The Australian ('Aussie mistreated in Baxter', Andrew
McGarry and Patricia Karvelas, 7 February 2005) states: "A
Department of Immigration spokesman denied the allegation
of mistreatment. He said there were no cameras on individual
rooms in any accommodation block, but there were cameras
over the public areas in the compound."

"This report was
not only carried by The Australian, but repeated by many
outlets of the Murdoch press this week."

"However,
photographs archived by the National Library Of Australia on
the internet show a bedroom in the Baxter Isolation compound
with the surveillance camera clearly mounted in the corner
of the bedroom."

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